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by eloff 4y ago
Yeah, it's not a guarantee. Sorry about your grandpa. However, it is the strongest preventative measure we know about currently. Just like we know exercise is one of them best things you can do for cardiovascular health as well, but it
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by eloff 4y ago
This is laser based fusion, which is super cool, but it might be a stretch to expect 200x more efficient lasers. Still maybe there's other things you could do, like make a bigger fusion reaction. Hydrogen bombs do it, so maybe.
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by eloff 4y ago
The biggest thing you can do for Alzheimer's is be physically fit at mid life. I don't suppose that's correlated with sex and Viagra usage... Oh wait.
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by eloff 4y ago
I don't see that scaling anytime soon, still more than two orders of magnitude away. But never say never.
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by eloff 4y ago
Awesome, do post a follow-up on HN, I want to hear how this war with the proxy asshats plays out.
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by eloff 4y ago
Seems like a good use case for a zip bomb. Return some tiny gzipped content that expands to 1gb.
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by eloff 4y ago
My brother got zinged with this. "You must repaint the house after moving out." He wasn't even there for a year. He's a good, law abiding fellow, so he did it. It was the last thing he needed to deal with on top of all t
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by eloff 4y ago
Sure, but I'm not recommending anyone join the Amish, just pointing out it is possible to live without a lot of technological informed in your life if you truly believe you'd be better off that way. It would be extremely dumb, but
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by eloff 4y ago
Why don't we say shutting down nuclear, banning fracking, and increasing reliance on Russian gas were all terrible decisions in hindsight.
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by eloff 4y ago
I've been a software engineer for twenty years. What I know is a small circle in the Venn diagram of what there is to know. That doesn't give me anxiety. I learn new things every day, and I enjoy doing that. Nobody understands eve
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by eloff 4y ago
The Amish get by all right. Seriously, if you really believe you're better off without technology, you can live that way without going and living in the woods. Saying you're better off without technology from a smartphone is hypoc
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by eloff 4y ago
Says the guy hypocritically from his smartphone. Technology has solved so many problems. It's also created new ones. But we're way better off, there's no question of that.
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by eloff 4y ago
It's literally a hundred lines of JavaScript, they'd take more time to learn the changes in a point release of React. I think it's a non issue. But the bigger thing is it's just for me, because I'm the only one work
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by eloff 4y ago
I was just building a very light version of this today. I'm just a backend developer sick of the bloated crap I have to maintain in my day job with React. I'm going old school, and going back to server side templates. Native compi
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by eloff 4y ago
Only if they can do it cheaper than the Navy. Nuclear isn't used because it saves on fuel. It's used because the operational advantages it bestows are worth more for the largest carriers and submarines than the extra cost it adds.
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by eloff 4y ago
We're not lacking information though. There are huge amounts of studies available for every FDA approved artificial sweetener. There is more information lacking for some of the less common natural ones. Also disagree about your disagre
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by eloff 4y ago
You're implicitly assuming natural compounds are better than artificial ones. That's not necessarily true. It is maybe more likely to be true, since we may have evolved with exposure to the natural chemical, and our bodies may han
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by eloff 4y ago
This is pretty low behavior. I've registered a few .dev names over the years, I'll let them lapse. I'll stick to .com.
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by eloff 4y ago
Completely agree, that's why this Lago is interesting to me instead of using Stripe services. I'd rather use Stripe for the bare minimum so I can implement support for a backup provider as well.
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by eloff 4y ago
No, I didn't mean to imply that you're doing that.
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes. It's a pretty scary possibility given their massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction of all kinds.
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by eloff 4y ago
It's millions[1] between the number the have been drafted and the number that have fled, and that's taking the Kremlin at their word about how many people they drafted. Also Russia has a brewing demographics collapse, similar to w
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by eloff 4y ago
It's definitely prudent to check the permissions you're granting via oauth. It's also prudent for a women to dress modestly if she's going to be alone in more dangerous locations and times. But people don't always b
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by eloff 4y ago
And Sony is what? They're worse. They're just trying to get the FTC to do their dirty work for them. The thing about games, if they're gray goo, you don't buy them. There's lot's to choose from. Games are a mer
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by eloff 4y ago
Also Microsoft offered to make Call of Duty available on PlayStation for the next 10 years, which is unprecedented. I think that kind of takes the wind right out of Sony's whining. It bothers me that Sony does worse monopolistic things
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by eloff 4y ago
Once again Africa draws the short straw.
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by eloff 4y ago
Just the timeline given here is very suspect, my understanding is human brains were roughly the same size they are today 35000 years ago. Did you mean 350k?
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by eloff 4y ago
The point of the midpoint calculation is to find the mid-index usually (e.g. binary search, quicksort). So a and b would be unsigned. You're right about signed integers though.
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by eloff 4y ago
You don't necessarily need that actually, there are carry flags that are set on overflow that you can check to get that extra bit of precision. In Rust you can actually do this using the checked add/sub/etc methods. It's
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by eloff 4y ago
It's mathematically correct, but integers use truncating (floor) division. So you can lose a fractional 0.5 from both a/2 and b/2, which would have added up to 1, and now your result is off by one from (a+b)/2. In genera

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